GIS Contracts in the Thames Valley

Geographic Information System (GIS)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for GIS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GIS over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 143 153
Rank change year-on-year +15 +10 -27
Contract jobs citing GIS 11 9 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.41% 0.31% 0.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.17% 2.01% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 13
10th Percentile £368 £353 £205
25th Percentile £375 £357 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £364 £535
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -31.96% +70.52%
75th Percentile £450 £494 £600
90th Percentile - £528 -
South East median daily rate £413 £481 £550
% change year-on-year -14.29% -12.50% +25.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
Median hourly rate £67.50 £25.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +170.00% +66.67% -
South East median hourly rate £67.50 £25.00 £18.75
% change year-on-year +170.00% +33.33% +87.50%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Thames Valley

GIS is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 347 447 558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.89% 15.21% 16.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 303 420
10th Percentile £316 £334 £313
25th Percentile £400 £419 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £638
South East median daily rate £478 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -6.83% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 3
10th Percentile £19.74 £22.90 -
25th Percentile £22.61 £26.08 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +266.67% -65.52%
75th Percentile £61.83 £75.75 £19.38
90th Percentile £67.50 £79.19 £22.00
South East median hourly rate £58.95 £57.50 £39.21
% change year-on-year +2.53% +46.66% +1.84%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing GIS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for GIS in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GIS in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for GIS in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GIS in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for GIS in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GIS within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire -1 11 £400 +9.89% 3
GIS
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Spatial
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
1 4 (36.36%) Azure AKS
2 3 (27.27%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Radio Access Network
1 2 (18.18%) Remote Desktop
1 2 (18.18%) XCAP
2 1 (9.09%) FTP
2 1 (9.09%) HTTP
2 1 (9.09%) Internet
2 1 (9.09%) RNC
2 1 (9.09%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (36.36%) Redis
2 3 (27.27%) Power BI
3 2 (18.18%) Tableau
4 1 (9.09%) Spatial Data
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Billing
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (9.09%) Legal
2 1 (9.09%) Local Government
2 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Developer
1 4 (36.36%) GIS Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Data Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Full Stack Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Optimisation Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Performance Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Python Developer
2 2 (18.18%) RAN Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) RAN Performance Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Data Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) OpenLayers
2 4 (36.36%) Celery
2 4 (36.36%) Django
2 4 (36.36%) GeoPandas
2 4 (36.36%) PostGIS
3 2 (18.18%) Flask
3 2 (18.18%) Node.js
3 2 (18.18%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Housing Association
1 1 (9.09%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement Process
2 2 (18.18%) Customer Experience
2 2 (18.18%) Data Transformation
2 2 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (18.18%) Full Stack Development
2 2 (18.18%) Visualisation
3 1 (9.09%) API Development
3 1 (9.09%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (9.09%) Change Management
3 1 (9.09%) Incident Management
3 1 (9.09%) ITIL
3 1 (9.09%) Line Management
3 1 (9.09%) Order to Cash
3 1 (9.09%) Performance Engineering
3 1 (9.09%) Problem Management
3 1 (9.09%) Process Improvement
3 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
3 1 (9.09%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
3 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Remedy
2 1 (9.09%) Ericsson
2 1 (9.09%) Mapinfo
2 1 (9.09%) Nokia
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle